Archive for July, 2008
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Well many moons ago I setup a jabber server so I could link all my IM accounts into one place. Way back then I tried Wildfire by Jive Software after a while I dumped it in favor of ejabberd as Java for running Wildfire on Linux was crippling the box.
After ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Some thing I am growing to hate about mobile broadband is how crap it is on a train. I know why is it like this, but when a train boasts it has enhanced coverage like Virgin trains do and you find 90% of the time you have no signal or ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Well first post from the new Wordpress iPhone blogging app. Seems pretty slick.
There are a few more cool apps hitting the Apple appstore, the one that surprised me was the truphone VoIP app. All can be found with a quick search.
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Something I noticed very quickly was how badly the battery can be hit by simple things on the iPhone 3G. Apple have a page of features that drain battery life, now problem is quite a few mean disabling features that you want to use like push email and wifi.
I did ...
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Well I'm seriously considering ending my now 15 year relationship as a Vodafone customer.. Switching to O2 and getting another iphone 3G in August when my current Vodafone contract expires.
Looking at the Vodafone site I cannot find a price plan that can provide the level of data and minutes to ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
This kind of sportsman scum such take their punishment for using drugs, and stop whining and using legal arguments to get out of their rightful punishment. He admitted to using drugs which gave him an performance improvement, he is banned from the Olympics and to be perfectly honest he should ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Small oopsie today... Opened something I shouldn't on the wrong machine, accidently opened while dropping into a bait VMWare session..... Ended up spending a good 40 mins cleaning up... It be a 0Day too so no virus scanner happens to find it..
Oh well, it has been sent off to the ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Well after a day with it some more impressions.
App Store, there are a lot of things there that do the same thing and lots of useless apps.
There are some free apps, the best has got to be Apple Remote, which basically allows you to use your iPhone to control 'paired' ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Well it arrived, even though on Monday I never actually fully completed the order process, due to the busted O2 update site.
So I'm happy I didn't have to camp an O2 shop to get my iphone upgrade.
So Exchange email, well it is awesome.. Just works.. It can be setup as ...
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Well I've been busy putting together a bunch of Ruby versions of some tools we use at work, I've cleaned up the Google scripts for searching for emails within google. I've extended the tool into something that can pull from Yahoo! and MSN Live using their respective search APIs. These ...
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